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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Mark Finley:  Empowered by the Spirit

Mark Finley

When the Spirit Falls

Receiving the Spirit

Strange Fire on Church Altars

Pentecost Repeated Part 1

Pentecost Repeated Part 2

End Time Symbols of the Spirit

I think we have yet a couple minutes before we start, but we welcome each of you here.

And I told the group that came a little earlier, if you have a Bible and a pen and a paper and notebook, you will get the most out of this class.

If you haven't brought your Bible this time, be sure to bring it next time because we are going to spend a lot of time studying God's Word.

Somebody asked if I had a PowerPoint presentation.

My comment was in my evangelism, in much of my teaching, I use PowerPoint.

But I think PowerPoint should never be a substitute for the Bible.

And this is a time that I'm not going to use PowerPoint.

We're going to come and open the Word of God.

I think there is something about seeing the text in the Scripture yourself.

You can see it on the screen and that's wonderful.

I use PowerPoint in my evangelism largely because people that are coming through the doors don't know the difference between the book of Ezekiel and the book of Hezekiah.

When I tell them to turn to Hezekiah, they're all flipping and looking in the Old Testament.

They have no clue that Hezekiah is not a book in the Bible, and they think Sodom and Gomorrah were 2 twin sisters.

So as the result of that, I need to start them with the PowerPoint presentations, but I like to wean people away from that as much as we can, because I still believe that there's something powerful about opening the Word of God, about taking a pen and underlining a text and circling a text.

There's something that you see in Scripture that you don't see if you are looking at it on the screen.

So, and when you see it in scripture, it becomes personally yours.

You write a note to it, you write down a text.

If you don't, I hope you'll bring it next session, look on with somebody next to you.

And we're going to wait just a moment or 2.

I need somebody that's going to help me because you know these preachers they get taken off in the wind as they start preaching and I need somebody's going to help me with timing We need to go from 930 to 1030 somebody in the front row you guys when you got to watch you young lady What time is it now?

931 wow we got to start right Is your clock right?

And this is a six-part class on the ministry and work of the Holy Spirit.

If you come 1 class, it's like going through breakfast and taking 1 piece of Silver Hills bread.

You will get some nourishment, but it's a lot better to eat the whole breakfast.

So you are certainly free to go to whatever seminars you want, but I do want you to know that I've built this seminar not as repetitive, but every class will be a different class.

And I'll tell you a little bit about what we're going to do, then we'll have prayer and launch right into our class.

I am convinced that 1 of the great issues in the Adventist church today in the finishing of God's work is the reception of the Holy Spirit in the hearts of the believers.

As I travel the world and you take Mexico City, 20 million people, 1 of the largest cities in the world, the largest city.

You take Tokyo and Japan and you travel through the cities of Europe and Asia.

Unless there is a dramatic outpouring of God's Spirit, the work of God on earth will not be finished.

No human genius is capable and no methods are capable of reaching this world.

So the key that stands between us and the coming of Jesus is understanding and receiving the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in our lives personally so that we can be those people that God longs for us to be.

That's why this seminar is so vitally important.

And I'm praying that not only will we learn something in the seminar, but that our hearts and minds will be changed, that this seminar will be something that you can take as young people and use it in small groups in your school, in your church from the notes that you have and that it can be life changing.

That the few hundred people here in this room can go out and you can share this material with others and that's why I encourage you to underline your Bible, cross-reference it and take adequate notes.

There are 6 presentations and I'll tell you about each presentation, and then we'll pray and go into our first presentation.

In the first presentation, I'm going to talk about the promise, the personality, and the power of the Holy Spirit.

The promise, the personality, and the power of the Holy Spirit.

We'll talk about the promise that Christ gave the Holy Spirit.

We'll talk about the personality of the Holy Spirit.

Is the Holy Spirit the third person of the Godhead?

What difference does that make if you understand the nature of the Holy Spirit?

And we'll talk about the power of the Holy Spirit in our own lives.

The second session I will talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

If somebody came up to you and said, Have you experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

Let's suppose you have a Pentecostal friend, and the Pentecostal friend says, have you experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

The Pentecostal friend is thinking, have you spoken in tongues?

But what is the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

And how do you know if you have been baptized by the Holy Spirit, does it make a difference in your life and witness if you've experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

And we're going to discuss that in the second session.

In the third session this afternoon, and we have 1 session from 9.30 to 10.30, then we take a 15-minute break.

At 2.30, I'm going to talk about the true and false manifestations of the Holy Spirit.

We're going to look at the gift of tongues.

We're going to look at miracles, and we're going to look at signs and wonders.

What does the Bible mean when it talks about the gift of tongues?

Is the gift of tongues evidence of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit?

Should we expect miracles of healing today?

And if the devil works miracles and God works miracles, how can you tell the difference?

Is it possible that we're so afraid of the devil's miracles that we miss God's miracles?

And is it possible that we want miracles so much that we're willing to accept the devil's miracles.

Are there criteria in the Bible, in the writings of Elm White that help you to tell?

So that's the second, that's the first session this afternoon.

You know, the Bible says these signs will follow them that they, that believe.

They will drink poison and they won't be killed.

They'll take up serpents and they'll speak in unknown tongues.

And so we're going to look at the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, the true and false manifestations.

That'll take us both sessions this afternoon.

That is such a comprehensive presentation that will take us both sessions.

So today, presentation 1, the personality power of the Holy Spirit and then the promise of the Holy Spirit.

Then session number 2 today, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the baptism of fire.

This afternoon, counterfeit signs and miracles of healing and tongues and how do you know the difference between the true and the false?

And how do we deal with the relationship between the true and the false?

And how do we deal with the relationship on the church and the finishing of God's work and how to participate in that finishing of God's work.

That's the early and latter rain tomorrow afternoon.

And then, though our last presentation, we're going to deal with the sanctuary and the Holy Spirit.

What relationship does Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary and his intercession in the Heavenly Sanctuary have to the Holy Spirit.

In each of our sessions, I'll usually make 2 presentations then give you a chance for questions.

What I find is if we do questions through the presentation, many of those things I may have answered and it may take us in a different direction.

So we'll have 3 question and answer periods.

Like I'll do 2 presentations this morning, but at the end of the morning I'll set aside 10-15 minutes for questions.

So your questions will be answered, but if you would be so kind to just jot them down and we can take questions in a block because then we're going to get a lot more done in our studies.

Do you mind if I make a quick announcement?

Series

Mark Finley: Empowered by the Spirit

When the Spirit Falls

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

A Brand New Spark

44m

3 The Holy Spirit’s Final Work

49m

God's Ordained Order

God’s Ordained Order - Part 2

49m

The Godhead- Part 3

1h

GYC 2012 Seminar: The Holy Spirit Promise

The Holy Spirit Results

59m

Prophetic Preaching and Persuasive Appeals for Decision

06 Preaching for Decisions in the Writings of Ellen G. White

49m

GYC 2012 Seminar: The Holy Spirit Promise

The Who, What and Why?

1h

The Spirit of Jesus

55m

Talking Points, 3rd Quarter 2020: Making Friends for God

05-Spirit-Empowered Witnessing

30m

Presenting Persuasive Appeals During Keys to Revelation

03 The Holy Spirit Makes Appeals Appealing

58m

The Representative of the General

58m

ASI 2012 Plenary Sessions

It’s Time... To Afflict Our Souls

55m

Sound Doctrine